From Darkness to Victory: Christ's Deliverance and Communion

On Good Friday, Jesus died from 12 o'clock to three o'clock. The Son of God bore the Wrath, the wrath of God, he says, for our sins. The world became dark at the death of Christ because of the Divine judgment that he bore. On Sunday morning, he rose, he got up from the grave. [00:30:00]

But first Peter 3 says on Saturday he was busy. He says between his death and Resurrection when he died he was alive in the spirit it says. So his body laid in Nicodemus's Tomb but Jesus in his Spirit was very much alive and in the life of his Spirit, it says he visited those who were incarcerated. [00:79:79]

So after Jesus died before Jesus arose, he went on a Ministry trip, and on the ministry trip, according to verse 20, verse Verse 18 he died he's put to death in the flesh, and verse 19 in which also he went and made Proclamation to the spirits now in prison. [00:113:34]

He brings up Noah. Two things happen with Noah. The world was judged, and eight people were delivered because of the Ark. He ties the art to the work of Christ, Jesus being the ark. Judgment fell but at the same time Deliverance was given because of sin working itself in the world. [00:179:88]

The first thing you can Proclaim is Satan go to hell because that's where he is. You can declare he no longer can hold you hostage. He no longer can put you in prison where you can function in the way God designed you to function because he's holding you as a prisoner of war and illegitimately hostage. [00:230:46]

He says when you have communion, you are to remember him. But what does it mean to remember? Does it merely mean to recall okay think back and remember that something happened certainly, remembering includes recalling, um is that all? Let's look at First Corinthians chapter 10 one page back from our Central Passage. [00:292:74]

Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Since there is one bread we who are many are one body for we all partake of the one bread. Look if a nation is real or not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar. [00:331:62]

He says partakers or participants, so when he says in chapter 11 to remember he's not just saying I want you to recall something in the past what he's saying is I want you to participate based on the past with something in the present. I want you to be a sharer or a participant. [00:402:72]

What communion is designed to do is bring you into a deeper level of intimate partnership with the Lord on the spiritual level so that his Saturday can become your Sunday, so that his speaking to the spiritual realities that inform our physical realities can take us to a place in the spiritual where Satan no longer is running our lives. [00:474:66]

He wants you to remember that the same thing he did two thousand years ago in delivering us from sin the whole of Satan bringing us to Victory is what he does today and he wants to give you the experience of that around his ordinance called communion. He does it there unlike he does it in any other place. [00:534:84]

It's a level of intimacy that you don't get through doing anything else because it is his spiritual intimate presence through the ACT. It is going deeper with him. He says you cannot drink from both tables all week long. The evil one wants us to drink from his table. [00:561:96]

The problem or challenges that you I or we Face are problems that have been demonized which is why they don't go away. They don't go away because it's not just the thing it's the thing that's been infiltrated by demonic influence and once it's been infiltrated by demonic influence trying to deal with the thing without dealing with the demons. [00:600:72]